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The word 'minotaur'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
minotaurOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6202
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 23.6 18 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of minotaur in Corpus

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General Central

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
hame o a monster we cried the Minotaur: a craitur wi the body o a ma
I had niver seen the Minotaur, but I had heard mony stories
art for their lives afore the Minotaur shauchled up tae the door.
stories, tae, aboot whaur the Minotaur cam fae. The story that flegg
ettled no tae think aboot the Minotaur, an every time I danced abuin
18 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha Minotaur on page 33

2 matches

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